- Hypervalent iodine-mediated oxygenative phenol dearomatization reactions
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Both λ3- and λ5-iodanes have proven to be useful reagents in the oxygenative dearomatization of phenols, and exploitations of their chemistry in the conception of both substrate- and reagent-controlled asymmetric variants of such a transformation of great value for natural product synthesis have shown evident signs of success. Moreover, the use of stabilized IBX (i.e., SIBX) in our methodology for O-demethylation of 2-methoxyphenols, which relies on the same key oxygenating dearomatization event, is reported here to be much more efficacious than that of IBX itself in the chemoselective one-step conversion of homovanillyl alcohol into hydroxytyrosol, and bergenin into norbergenin.
- Pouységu, Laurent,Sylla, Tahiri,Garnier, Tony,Rojas, Luis B.,Charris, Jaime,Deffieux, Denis,Quideau, Stéphane
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experimental part
p. 5908 - 5917
(2010/09/09)
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